It will be shown hereafter that it has been in a melted state, and that it has taken its present form on cooling.
When the material has been thrown out in a melted state, it is called lava.
It is evident, from their occurring in the form of dikes, that they have been in a melted state.
This example of a mineral salt congealed from a melted state, may be confirmed from another which I have from Dr Black, who suggested it to me.
It is in this manner that such a person, finding a piece of lava in any place of the earth, says with certainty, Here is a stone which had congealed from a melted state.
We frequently find in it much calcareous spar, or the terra calcarea aerata, which had been in a melted state by heat, and had been crystallized by congelation into a sparry form.
It can hardly be doubted, by the geologist, that nearly every part of the earth's crust, and its interior too, have been some time or other in a melted state.
Shall we hence conclude that all the matter of the globe below this thickness (or, rather, for the sake of round numbers, below one hundred miles) is actually in a melted state?
The rock of Stirling Castle is a calcareous sandstone, fractured and forcibly displaced by a mass of greenstone which has evidently invaded the strata in a melted state.
I can only explain by supposing that fragments of red-hot lava, as they fell round the vent, were cemented together into one compact mass, in consequence of continuing to be in a half-melted state.
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